Nadia
My best friend also thinks that he might have taken my shyness as lack of interest and a form of rejection but he also said that if he was truly interested in me he wouldn’t have started talking to that other girl and would have put in more effort.
He was never able to talk to me even the first time we met it was I who initiated the conversation and he seemed a bit shy with me even then. I got to know about his interest level from our mutual friend.
As far as my body language is concerned with guys, it’s definitely negative but my best friend has said that since I’m attractive it only makes things worse because I look even more intimidating to guys then.
My best friend (who’s a guy) explained to me that it’s much much easier to approach an average or plain looking girl as opposed to an attractive one. He tells me that guys think way too much about impressing attractive girls, they also think they’re taken, arrogant, etc. and would shoot them down. He tells me that’s the reason why guys don’t approach me (along with my negative body language).
In this situation, he had often told me to smile and wave or even say Hi to this guy so that he can approach me but I never did that because I was always too shy and nervous around him.